The following articles are in CJ 104.1
THE MIST SHED BY ZEUS IN ILIAD XVII
Jonathan FennoAbstract: The mist that persistently obscures and surrounds the battle over Patroclus in Iliad
17 is considered both as
a natural meteorological phenomenon, and as an instrument of divine intervention manifesting Zeus’ sympathy in
accord with his larger plan to glorify Achilleus.
SINON IN ROMAN DRAMA
Giampiero ScafoglioAbstract: This article investigates the probable sources of the version of the Sinon myth found in Plautus’ Bacchides
938, where Sinon hides in busto Achilli
. The Vatican Epitome of Pseudo-Apollodorus knows this version of the story,
but Plautus seems to have followed a different source. He borrowed the motif not from a Greek play or poem, but from
Roman tragedy, probably the Equos Troianus
of Naevius, who in turn got it from a post-classical Greek drama.
HAURANUS THE EPICUREAN
Kent J. RigsbyAbstract: C. Stallius Hauranus, an Epicurean in Naples known from his funerary epigram (Courtney no. 22), is
shown by his cognomen to be a freedman from Syria, as the name Hauranus is Semitic and recurs in 2 Macc. 4.40.
CICERO ON HISTORIOGRAPHY:
DE ORATORE 2.51-64
A.J. WoodmanAbstract: The article defends interpretations of De Oratore
2.51-64 which were put forward in Rhetoric in Classical
Historiography
(1988) and which have recently been challenged.
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